In my major performance of the Othello unit‚ I acted out act three‚ scene four of Othello‚ by William Shakespeare‚ as Othello. In the scene‚ Othello finds Desdemona‚ and questions her about the handkerchief he gave her when they fell in love. He becomes angry when he discovers she has lost it‚ and he storms out. I characterized Othello in my portrayal as a desperate‚ jealous man angry at his wife for possible cheating on him. To portray Othello to the audience‚ I wore a white dress shirt and dark
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Introduce your thesis In the second scene of act three‚ Brutus explains to the citizens why Caesar needs to be killed. He states how Caesar is an honorable man but too ambitious‚ and that’s why he had to be slain for the good of Rome. Then Anthony goes on the platform to talk‚ as Brutus promised. Being a better persuader and knowing well of human nature‚ Anthony turns the crowd against the conspirators by telling the good deeds of Caesar and evidence of him didn’t want to be a tyrant. Anthony mentions
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Dramatic Literacy Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ in which the name of the central character‚ Pilgrim‚ epitomizes the book’s allegorical nature. Kay Boyle’s story "Astronomer’s Wife" and Christina Rossetti’s poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. Catastrophe The
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Good ____‚ First of all‚ let us congratulate ourselves for passing the tough Licensure Examination for Teachers. Do you still remember the time and effort you have sacrificed for several months? Well‚ here is the fruit of all those sleepless nights. Second‚ let me ask you a question. Before you took the examinations‚ did you doubt yourself? Third‚ allow me to share this inspirational article I have read on believing in ourselves. “There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren’t
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Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Frank ACC291 Accounting II September 26‚ 2012 Gary Connelly The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was designed to help prevent any fraudulent information being displayed on any company’s financial statement. The benefits of using falsified information would be that more people internally and externally will want to invest in the company. For example‚ a company financially
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THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE IN TENNYSON’S ULYSSES The greatest Victorian contribution to poetry is certainly the form of the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is defined by various critics as a type of poem in which a single speaker‚ a persona‚ “utters the speech that makes up the whole of the poem‚ in a specific situation at a critical moment.” This speaker addresses and interacts with one or more other people. They are silent but usually identifiable listeners in whose presence the speaker reveals
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Shakespeare uses so many literary devices‚ but he is most famous for his use of irony in the play‚ Othello. There are three kinds of irony presented throughout the play. We are going to examine how Shakespeare uses dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal irony in Othello. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the other characters are unaware about. Throughout the play‚ the audience is unaware about Iago’s plan. He has been manipulating the other characters without them knowing. Iago
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Essay on The Dramatic Point of View of "Hills Like White Elephants" This story‚ Hills Like White Elephants‚ is taken form the Objective (dramatic) point of view where the author is the narrator. The author doesn’t enter the mind of the characters at any time. He allows us only to see the characters as we would in real life. This is sometimes called the dramatic point of view. The only way we‚ the reader‚ learn anything about them is through what they say about themselves. If the story were
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History Boys Discuss the dramatic function of 3 separate comedy scenes in The History Boys. In Alan Bennetts play‚ The History Boys‚ dramatic functions need to used in order to be able to bring out the personalities of character and to bring the story forward‚ as in a play you can not describe as you can in a novel. One scene in The History Boys where Alan Bennett uses comedy is when during a general studies lesson with Hector he allows the boys to act‚ in French‚ as though they were in a
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ dramatic irony is used to garner sympathy and antipathy from the audience‚ which further develops the characters‚ conflict‚ and theme of the story. This is seen when the ghost of Hamlet Sr. tells Hamlet Jr. that “the serpent that did sting [his] father’s life/Now wears his [father’s] crown.” (I.v.39-40). This creates dramatic irony because the audience knows that Claudius killed Hamlet Sr. while the majority of the characters still believe that Hamlet Sr. was bitten by a
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